From P3 million, the city and provincial governments of Marawi and Lanao del Sur, respectively, as well as the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao raised the amount to P6 million for the capture of Owaida Benito Marohombsar, alias Abu Dhar, Col. Romeo Brawner of the Joint Task Force Ranao said in a recent media briefing.

ILIGAN CITY, Philippines — Authorities have raised the reward money for the capture of a Maute leader who is believed to have survived the recent military air strikes in the towns of Tubaran and Pagayawan in Lanao del Sur.

From P3 million, the city and provincial governments of Marawi and Lanao del Sur, respectively, as well as the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao raised the amount to P6 million for the capture of Owaida Benito Marohombsar, alias Abu Dhar, Col. Romeo Brawner of the Joint Task Force Ranao said in a recent media briefing.

The militants escaped in different directions after their bomb-making facilities and bunkers were destroyed during the air strikes on Sunday.

The military offensive forced some 10,000 people to flee to evacuation centers.

The military said that on Monday, some of the evacuees have returned home.

Before President Rodrigo Duterte left Thursday for his one-on-one with President Xi Jinping in Beijing, he promised to “invoke” the 2016 ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague that resolved some maritime disputes between the two neighbors.

Eight warships, four aircraft and more than a thousand personnel from the US and ten Southeast Asian countries will join maritime drills kicking off Monday, as part of a joint exercise extending into the flashpoint South China Sea.

China has rejected as “unwelcome” the call of the United Kingdom, France and Germany on the South China Sea claimants to respect the arbitration ruling of 2016 and the rules-based framework laid out in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).